Motherboard and CPU

WALT: Able to explain difference between a motherboard

and CPU.

Contents:
• Motherboard and its components
• CPU and its functions
 What is motherboard and why do we need one?
• Motherboard is a printed circuit board. This board serves
as a base, connecting all of the system’s components.
These components might be external or internal. There are
sockets, slots and inputs etc. which are used to connect
components to the motherboard.
• A motherboard is needed for communication between the
components of a system. For example, a CPU uses Ram to
run applications which are stored on the hard drive. And
these all components are connected to each other by the
motherboard. if there was no motherboard, nothing would
have happened.
• Some components of the system connected to motherboard are:
• CPU

RAM chips

• Storage device etc.

Graphics Card

• Sound Card
CPU(Central processing unit)
• It is a type of processor. And a processor is any hardware
device that processes some data.
• A CPU is the part of a computer that executes instructions :
The CPU is what tells everything else what to do: operate devices
like disks and displays, and It also does arithmetic operations - add,
subtract, multiply, etc.
• Architecture;
• A CPU can contain one or more processing units. Each unit is called a
core. It is common for computers to have two (dual), four (quad) or
even more cores. The components of a core are:
1. The Control Unit :
• The Control Unit makes decisions and sends the appropriate signal
down its lines to other parts of the computer.
2. The Arithmetic/Logic Unit :
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p ro c esso r.( The A LU ca rrie s o u t a rit h met ic a n d lo g ic f u n c t ion s.)

3. Registers:
Registers provide temporary memory storage locations within the processor.

• Clock speed:
indicates how fast the CPU can run. This is measured in or gigahertz ( gHz)
and corresponds with how many instruction cycles the CPU can deal with
in a second.
• Cache:
Cache is a small amount of memory which is a part of the CPU - closer to
the CPU than RAM. It is used to temporarily hold instructions and data
that the CPU is likely to reuse. The CPU control unit automatically checks
cache for instructions before requesting data from RAM.
Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 and Core i9 — the difference
• CPUs have multiple cores for more power and smoother multi -
tasking.
• There are 4 main categories: i3, i5, i7 and i9.
i9 series microprocessors are better performing than i7 series , which
are in turn better performing than i5 series.
I9 series microprocessors will have higher or equal number of cores in
processors than i7 series , which in turn will have higher or equal number
of cores in the processor than i5 series .

• The more cores there are, the more tasks (known as threads)
can be served at the same time.
• Number of cores in each category varies by every Generation.
Performance difference between a 4th gen and 5th gen CPU.
 Plenary
• Write down functions of Motherboard & CPU .

• Explain the differences between Motherboard and CPU.